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F1 rules overhaul unlikely to close up the field in 2017
Despite the predictions of many experts, former Williams Martini Racing Technical Director Patrick Head does not believe the 2017 regulation changes will close the performance gap between teams. Wider cars and tyres are being introduced this year in a bid to increase speeds, shake up the field and improve the show, but whilst implementing such radical changes is all well and good, teams with smaller budgets and lesser resources tend to lose out, as Head explained in an interview with the Guardian recently. 'If anybody was thinking of these rules with the aim of closing the field up then they've got rocks in their head.' 'Any time you make significant changes the advantage will always go to...
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